On 5 Jul 2005 at 22:43, Tyler Turner wrote: > --- Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We did. > > > > A while back, many of the people on this list came > > up with a > > reasonably detailed plan for implementing a feature > > that looks very > > much like Sibelius's Dynamic Parts. Between us, we > > decided exactly how > > it ought to work, and how it COULD work using an > > existing Finale > > mechanism (Special Part Extraction). I passed the > > results of that > > discussion on to Coda -- I'm sure some of the other > > people involved did > > the same. > > That's a good example. And believe it or not, it > nearly got implemented a few years ago because of > engraver requests. I can't even remember for sure > which release it was, but that feature was very nearly > implemented at the expense of developing little else. > I don't recall what exactly was involved with the > decision to not do it. At this point, I think it would > be good to make suggestions to MakeMusic for which > parts of that feature you actually need most. What > would be the minimum implementation for the feature > that would give you most of the usefulness? Sibelius' > method is pretty flashy, complete with instantaneous > update. If something like that isn't necessary, it > would be good to mention that. I'm pretty sure that > MakeMusic will at least be looking at this feature > again now that Sibelius has included it. They have a > lot of other stuff on their plate though, so the less > work they'd have to spend on it, the better chance > they'd be able to do it.
Perhaps we should decide what we want to see in Finale and send those suggestions to Sibelious. No doubt, in a year or two, we'd see the same feature implemented in Finale, just to keep up with Sibelius. I have no doubt that linked parts are on the way in Finale now, and that's the next time I'll upgrade, when they implement it in Finale. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
